I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The…

stay together learn the flowers go light

— Gary Snyder

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.

— Theodore Roethke

“Deep in their roots,’ Roethke had said, ‘all flowers keep the light.”

— Jan Karon

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have…

— Sylvester Stallone

the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

— Margaret Millar

“And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for…

— Anonymous

O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or…

— Louis Aragon

Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city…

— Joyce Carol Oates

I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a…

— Angus Wilson

Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the early morning…

— Billy Wilder

The lilac branches are bowed under the weight of the flowers: blooming is hard, and the most important thing is - to bloom. (“A…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will be there…

— Czeslaw Milosz

There is an infinity of landscape here, caused by the purity of the atmosphere. It has been said that there is a lack of…

— Hans Heysen

When you chopped logs with the ax and they split open they smelled beautiful, like Christmas. But when you split someone's head open it…

— Kate Atkinson

Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room

— Anonymous